Is the Sky Really the Limit? Exploring the Attitude-Achievement Paradox in the Belgian Context:

摘要: While immigrant students in Belgium have expressed high educational aspirations, if we compare them with ethnic majority students, those aspirations are not reflected their achievement results. Ethnographic observations and semi-structured interviews from 10 class groups three Flemish schools (northern part of Belgium) were used to understand why these translated into actual examination results, also known as the attitude-achievement paradox. Our findings indicate that all generally believe importance education get ahead Belgian society. Analyses reveal, however, although descent want achieve society, they perceive more barriers—such labor market discrimination—than non-immigrant becoming successful. They figured out distinct defensive coping strategies circumvent barriers, such choosing jobs do invite discrimination attempting school order prove one’s worth or someone wrong, which eventually seemed affect outcomes. The particular choices made deal perceptions experiences should be understood within local networks live depends on (perceived) nature discrimination.